Re: [gnome-db] Progress update on my branch

[Andrea Zagli <azagli libero it>]

Il giorno gio 29 mar 2018 02:40:53 CEST, Pavlo Solntsev ha scritto:
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> Meanwhile, I have started a very optimistic project. I realized, that
> the code doesn't allow effectively manage databases. For example,
> create DB objects from user provided data, e.g. xml. Actually, there is
> a way to do so, but it is not flexible and it is understandable only by
> people who familiar with the code. My goal here is to develop a
> infrastructure to generate database from xml and retrieve database
> information to xml. I decided to do this via DDL API. A new object
> GdaDdlCreator will be introduced which will be responsible for parsing
> input xml file. Other additional objects, e.g. GdaDdlTable, GdaDdlView,
> GdaDdlPkey, etc. will be used and generated from the user provided xml
> file. Also, I am planning to allow object initialization using
> xmlNodePtr. It will allow generation of single object from multiple xml
> files. Having these objects, we can create them using a new API, e.g.
> gda_server_operation_prepare_create_ddl_table. After all this work ,
> database should be generated/updated from simple xml without any code
> modification. It will also provide a convenient relationship between DB
> object and user data. Technically a parser may be written to generate
> such code from the xml file.
>
> I haven't pushed this work to git server yet.


i have a library that do the same things (WIP) (inspired by  
http://www.liquibase.org/)

http://saetta.ns0.it/gitweb?p=libzakdbt;a=summary